How to Choose Wireless Router

How to Choose Wireless Router

Choosing the best wireless router for home or business network can be irritating. Everyone wants good performance, larger coverage, greater security and reliability. Nobody wants to upgrade the Wi-Fi router for the next few years.

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It should be identified the needs for the wireless router first before buying a wireless router. If you want to create only a simple wireless network, you can choice a fairly cheap router. But if you want more security, control and scalability, you can choice higher priced premium routers.

Many people visit retail sites to see the user reviews before buying wireless router, but those wireless router reviews do not give you relevant information. You can just get customer’s general feelings with specific router from those reviews. It does not means same experience will be happened for you. The performance can vary radically from one place to another place. A head to head comparison can be the better way to decide which wireless router is best to buy.

A wireless router is difficult to install and maintain. So you should select the wireless router carefully. Although different people have different demands and experiences, here we discuss some common steps that help you to choose a best wireless router for home or office.

Signal Strength: Different wireless routers have different signal strengths. It should be identified first which one is fit for your network requirements. A real life testing is best for measuring signal strength rather than manufacture’s published specification. Signal strength can be a major issue for a small flat even you use best modem router. So you should understand the obstacles in an interior home environment and relative distance of a particular area of the building from wireless router location.

Security: Security is the major concern in today’s network. It has become more important to any organization. Data should be encrypted before passing to the network medium. The modern Data encryption can now provide higher level of privacy. So you should think about the need of encryption for your network. Most of the modem routers support multiple wireless encryption and authentication methods. You must determine which encryption method you should use. You may read router manufacturer’s specification to choose latest encryption method.

Compatibility: Another essential element of choosing the best Wi-Fi routers is compatible issue. It should be identified how the wireless router will compatible with existing piece of hardware and network device in the home or office network.

Customer Support: You should buy your wireless router from a well known company that has good customer services with the clients. They should provide technical 24/7 support for their clients.

Warranty: Before buying a wireless router you should know the guarantee and warranty period of the router. You should also look carefully at warranty requirement of the product.

TP-Link, Netgear, Linksys, D-Link and Asus are the five top router’s brand in the market. Different brand routers are suitable for different scenarios. Some are cheaper, some are fastest router, and some are the best for online gaming. Below are the some information about different wireless brands that help you to choose perfect router for your network needs.

Netgear N750 is the one of the fastest router on the today’s market and it has a higher data rate and lower cost than other router brands in the market. If you need to transfer large file like large video and audio files from one device to another device in your network, you should select fastest router.

If you have large Wi-Fi users in your network and money is not an issue, you can choose Netgear, D-link or Asus wireless routers. There are some router’s models available in the market that have higher speed such as D-link DIR-890/R ,Asus RT-AC3200, Netgear X5 R8500, etc.

If you have fewer Wi-Fi users (10-20), you can choose Linksys WRT100ACS or Asus RT-AC68U. These models are better for small home network.

If you have a very fast Internet connection such as the download speed of 100 mbps or more, Linksys WRT1900ACS Dual-Band Gigabit Wi-Fi Router and Asus AC2400 RT-AC87U Dual-band Wireless Gigabit Router are better choice.

If your requirement is just a minimum Wi-Fi network at home with slow speed less than 30 mbps, then low cost TP-LinkTL-WR841N Wireless N Router, D-Link HD Media Router 1000 are sufficient. Some routers like Netgear N750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router (WNDR4000) are better for online gaming.

So you should choose perfect wireless router based on your requirement.

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